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Brassy Line-up for 2015 Prescot Festival

Tubas, trumpets and trombones will herald the 11th Annual
Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts this year.

World number four-ranking brass band, Foden’s Band, will bring
its melodies to the historic town on Saturday 27 June, building on
the success of last year’s brilliantly received gala
performance.

Then up-and-coming soloist Hannah Mackenzie, from the Royal
Northern College of Music, will play Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto at
the Proms-style Festival Finale on Sunday 28 June.

During the 10-day event, audiences will also get to enjoy a
fish-and-chip supper alongside a screening of the 1996 comedy drama
Brassed Off. In the ‘80s-set film, the late Warrington-born actor
Pete Postlethwaite plays the conductor of a colliery brass band
that must fight for survival amid pit closures.

“Brass bands have always proved a hit with Merseyside
audiences,” said festival director Dr Robert Howard, “but there’s
much more this year, too.

“As always, there is lots of room for Prescot talent, too, and
we’ll be hearing music and poetry from local schoolchildren, as
well as seeing their art on display.”

The 11th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts runs
from Friday 19 to Sunday 28 June 2015. Tickets go on sale on 1 May.
A regularly updated programme of events is now online at prescotfestival.co.uk.